Worship Podcast & Blog
As worship leaders and musicians, we are familiar with routine.
We learn songs, we rehearse, we show up on Sunday, we organize worship services. When Monday comes, we’re making plans to do it again. The routines never stop. Our service programming abides by a routine. Our liturgy abides by a certain routine. The church calendar follows a routine.
Do you ever get tired of the same old? Is your routine killing your creativity? Do you feel like you’re being held back?
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I love songwriting. I love the power of what a song can do. Songs can literally change people’s lives.
I also love hearing from the best about how they write songs and craft lyric and melody to effect people’s hearts. I’ve wanted to have Mia Fieldes on the podcast for a while now and that day has finally come.
Mia is an incredible songwriter who’s collaborated with the likes of Michael W Smith, Matt Maher, Kari Jobe, Hillsong, and more. Have you heard “Proof of Your Love” by For King & Country or “He Knows My Name” by Francesca Battistelli? Mia wrote those songs.
Not only do we talk songwriting but we also dive into some vulnerable territory about overcoming insecurity. Mia gets real towards the end of the interview and it’s super powerful stuff.
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Sometimes there’s a lyric that just smacks you in the face and roots your life back in reality.
One of those phrases is from the song Unbroken Praise by Matt Redman. It goes like this:
“Let my deeds outrun my words. Let my life outweigh my song.”
Ouch. I feel so often I can stress and strive for my art to get recognized – for people to love my worship leading. For the church to love my songs. For people to appreciate what I make. But in reality, I would rather be known for my life than for the art I create.
So much of this has been said before. Especially from a writer like Redman.
Coming back to the heart of worship…
Now to live the life…
A life of worship isn’t new information. It’s on the t-shirts.
If our lives don’t back up our songs, it’s empty.
Worship leaders, if our personal worship doesn’t outshine the stages we stand on, we’re missing the point.
But what is the answer? To stop singing altogether?